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Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer
Written by Chely Wright
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $16.99
Chely Wright, singer, songwriter, country music star, writes in this moving, telling memoir about her life and her career; about growing up in America’s heartland, the youngest of three children; about barely remembering a time when she didn’t know she was different.
She writes about her parents, putting down roots in their... Read more >
Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer
Written by Chely Wright
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $16.99
Chely Wright, singer, songwriter, country music star, writes in this moving, telling memoir about her life and her career; about growing up in America’s heartland, the youngest of three children; about barely remembering a time when she didn’t know she was different.
She writes about her parents, putting down roots in their... Read more >
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The TV Writer's Workbook
A Creative Approach To Television Scripts
Written by Ellen Sandler
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $16.00
Why is TV writing different from any other kind of writing? How will writing a spec script open doors? What do I have to do to get a job writing for TV? Writing for television is a business. And, like any business, there are proven strategies for success. In this unique... Read more >
A Creative Approach To Television Scripts
Written by Ellen Sandler
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $16.00
Why is TV writing different from any other kind of writing? How will writing a spec script open doors? What do I have to do to get a job writing for TV? Writing for television is a business. And, like any business, there are proven strategies for success. In this unique... Read more >
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Living with Shakespeare
Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors
Written by Susannah Carson
Foreword by Harold Bloom
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $9.99
Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture.
We hear from James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello as a tragic... Read more >
Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors
Written by Susannah Carson
Foreword by Harold Bloom
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $9.99
Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture.
We hear from James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello as a tragic... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed
And Other Things I've Learned
Written by Alan Alda
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $16.00
He’s one of America’s most recognizable and acclaimed actors–a star on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, during his eleven years on M*A*S*H. Now Alan Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his... Read more >
And Other Things I've Learned
Written by Alan Alda
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $16.00
He’s one of America’s most recognizable and acclaimed actors–a star on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, during his eleven years on M*A*S*H. Now Alan Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his... Read more >
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The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present
Written by Tim Brooks and Earle F. Marsh
Format: Trade Paperback, 1856 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $29.95
AMERICA’S #1 BESTSELLING TELEVISION BOOK WITH MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES IN PRINT–
NOW REVISED AND UPDATED!
PROGRAMS FROM ALL SEVEN COMMERCIAL BROADCAST NETWORKS, MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED CABLE NETWORKS, PLUS ALL MAJOR SYNDICATED SHOWS!
This is the must-have book for TV viewers in the new millennium–the entire history of primetime programs in... Read more >
Written by Tim Brooks and Earle F. Marsh
Format: Trade Paperback, 1856 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $29.95
AMERICA’S #1 BESTSELLING TELEVISION BOOK WITH MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES IN PRINT–
NOW REVISED AND UPDATED!
PROGRAMS FROM ALL SEVEN COMMERCIAL BROADCAST NETWORKS, MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED CABLE NETWORKS, PLUS ALL MAJOR SYNDICATED SHOWS!
This is the must-have book for TV viewers in the new millennium–the entire history of primetime programs in... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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A Long Strange Trip
The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
Written by Dennis McNally
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $19.95
The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist–a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of rock and the 1960s’ counterculture.
From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of the most beloved, unusual... Read more >
The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
Written by Dennis McNally
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $19.95
The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist–a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of rock and the 1960s’ counterculture.
From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of the most beloved, unusual... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Hedy's Folly
The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Written by Richard Rhodes
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $15.00
The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Written by Richard Rhodes
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $15.00
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a remarkable story of science history: how a ravishing film star and an avant-garde composer invented spread-spectrum radio, the technology that made wireless phones, GPS systems, and many other devices possible.
Beginning at a Hollywood dinner table, Hedy's Folly tells a wild story of innovation that...
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Tell to Win
Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story
Written by Peter Guber
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $26.00
Today everyone – whether they know it or not – is in the emotional transportation business. More and more, success is won by creating compelling stories that have the power to move partners, shareholders, customers, and employees to action. Simply put, if you can’t tell it, you can’t sell it. And... Read more >
Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story
Written by Peter Guber
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $26.00
Today everyone – whether they know it or not – is in the emotional transportation business. More and more, success is won by creating compelling stories that have the power to move partners, shareholders, customers, and employees to action. Simply put, if you can’t tell it, you can’t sell it. And... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Four Feet Tall and Rising
A Memoir
Written by Shorty Rossi
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $25.00
Luigi Francis Shorty Rossi, the tough-talking, fedora-wearing star of Animal Planet’s hit show Pit Boss, may stand only four feet tall but that hasn’t stopped him from living large, becoming a successful businessman and an outspoken advocate for pit bulls, the most misunderstood breed of dog in the world.
A third generation... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Shorty Rossi
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $25.00
Luigi Francis Shorty Rossi, the tough-talking, fedora-wearing star of Animal Planet’s hit show Pit Boss, may stand only four feet tall but that hasn’t stopped him from living large, becoming a successful businessman and an outspoken advocate for pit bulls, the most misunderstood breed of dog in the world.
A third generation... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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This Business of Music, 10th Edition
Written by M. William Krasilovsky and Sidney Shemel
Contribution by John M. Gross and Jonathan Feinstein
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $29.95
The bible of the music industry! Now in its tenth edition, This Business of Music has been revised and completely updated to reflect the latest changes in the ever-evolving music business. Every chapter has been revised. An entirely new chapter has been added, asking and answering the question “Are there borders... Read more >
Written by M. William Krasilovsky and Sidney Shemel
Contribution by John M. Gross and Jonathan Feinstein
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $29.95
The bible of the music industry! Now in its tenth edition, This Business of Music has been revised and completely updated to reflect the latest changes in the ever-evolving music business. Every chapter has been revised. An entirely new chapter has been added, asking and answering the question “Are there borders... Read more >
